Chapter 41 Jagged Knicks
After defeating the Hawks, the Pistons' season officially began, but that didn't make them all the way.
In the second regular season game, they met the Lakers who lacked stars but focused on overall cooperation. Their All-Star center Divac had to contribute an All-Star season before he exchanged them for Kobe Bryant. On that night, he coordinated the whole game with extremely terrifying wisdom, scored 22 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists to defeat the Pistons.
It was also this night that Mo Mengchen discovered the systematic punishment measures.
Before each game begins, he will receive four or five tasks, and one task is fixed, that is, win the game.
If you do not win the game, you must subtract half of the attribute points for completing the task based on deducting the fixed reward of 100 attribute points for winning the game.
In other words, you can get about 800 attribute points by winning a game, and if you lose the game, you can only get at most 350 attribute points.
In the third game, the Pistons faced the new Raptors. The only highlight of this team that lacks competitiveness is Damon Stoudemire, who is also in the 1995th class. He shone in the whole game that night, but due to the team's poor strength, they eventually lost the game.
Mo Mengchen continued to maintain an efficient and eye-catching performance.
He played for 28 minutes, and compared to the opponent's classmate who violently scored 25 points and 4 rebounds, his score was not conspicuous, with only 6 points, but in addition to these 6 points, there were 11 rebounds and 11 assists, which was the first time he had a double-double in his career.
Such unusual data made the Raptors home commentator Quincy Angus give a classic commentary; "If Dor.Mo can enhance the aggressiveness of the offensive end, a triple-double will be a breeze for him."
As for the so-called "Dor.Mo", it is Mo Mengchen's nickname.
Mo Mengchen's part-time job in Saint Lucifer is no longer news. Anyone who knows about the Pistons knows this, and he is not a false name. Every two days, he will go to Saint Lucifer to complete an operation.
To this day, he still maintains a 100% success rate of surgery. All the patients he treated have become his fans. His reputation swept Detroit. Whenever he enters Auburn Hill, the cheers he receives are comparable to Hill, second only to Dumas.
The fans shouted: "Dor.Mo!"
Gradually, this nickname replaced "Mo", and even his teammates began to call him that.
Two days later, the Pistons went to the capital to challenge the Bullets.
It is also a team that lacks competitiveness, but the Bullets have many strong players including Rashid Wallace. This game is a showdown between two 1995 players.
That night, Mo Mengchen played for 30 minutes, scoring 11 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, leading the team to take away the victory, while Wallace on the opposite side scored 15 points and 11 rebounds.
The Pistons won two consecutive victories, and Mo Mengchen scored in double digits for the first time in his career.
It seems that they have entered the state, but the next game left everyone helpless - their next game opponent is the Bulls who come with anger.
There is no need to say much about the feud between the Bulls and the Pistons. This is a pair of enemies who don’t need to be mobilized before the game as long as they meet.
The Bulls are determined to win the championship, and the Pistons are not taken seriously by them at all.
This is a typical 96 Bulls massacre game. The Pistons tried their best to draw with the Bulls in half. In the third quarter, the fierce Bulls gave the Pistons a 24-3 breath, and the Auburn Mountain Palace was silent.
This wave of offense laid the foundation for the Bulls' victory. In the end, Jordan scored 3555, Pipen's triple-double, and Rodman scored 6 points and 20 rebounds.
Dumas scored in the confrontation with his old opponent and performed miserably. Mo Mengchen was slightly better, but the Bulls' defense made him feel powerful. Before that, the Bulls' strength only existed in his impression. Now, it was no longer an impression, but a blow that happened to himself, a major defeat engraved in the depths of his mind.
Just like as an intern, it is the first time to observe the operation, or if you accidentally hurt the patient after the operation, it will lead to serious consequences.
This kind of failure can destroy people or turn them into strong abilities that inspire people to move forward.
New York
The first city in the United States
The Pistons landed at Kennedy International Airport in a special plane, and tonight they will challenge the Knicks who are waiting for the game tonight.
"Dor.Mo, there are rumors that you will replace Joe Dumas as the Pistons' starting No. 1 position, is that true?"
"I haven't heard of this."
"You had previously defeated the Bulls at home. Will this affect your preparations tonight?"
"Won't."
"John Starks said their confrontation would be more fierce than the Bulls, and you will suffer a losing streak tonight. What do you think about this?"
"Hope we won't be guarded to 2 of 18."
Mo Mengchen answered the reporter's interview while walking, and finally got on the team's bus.
This city is no longer new to many players, and rookies like Momonchen, Ratliff, Reed, and Lorre are all the first time they have come to the Big Apple City.
Except for Mo Mengchen, the other three people were very excited.
"Rookie, did you really say that to the reporter?"
Alan Houston came over and asked.
"What sentence?"
"Hopefully no one is guarded to 2 of 18," Houston said, "this sentence."
"I said," Mo Mengchen glanced at him, "Is there any problem?"
Houston laughed and scolded: "You bold bastard, why do you dare to say so? That madman will kill you!"
"If we are not prepared, their defense will kill us all." Mo Mengchen said solemnly.
I have talked about the era of iron-blooded defense before, so what is the era of iron-blooded defense?
Before the 92-93 season, the mainstream of the league was offense.
91 Bulls, 88 Lakers, 87 Lakers, 86 Celtics, these champion teams have distinct characteristics: offensive efficiency is as high as 120.
It was an era of offense first. Teams that achieved 120 offensive efficiency can be said to be the best team, and there are a lot of teams that achieved 110 offensive efficiency.
Later, before the malicious foul was issued, the Pistons used this rule and had both their own strength to win two championships from the Demon Bird God. After the malicious foul was issued, their game style had a huge impact.
There is a man who learns their experience while not relying on malicious defense.
In the 92-93 season, the Bulls continued to play an offensive efficiency of 120, and Jordan was rushing for the first three consecutive championships. In the same season, Pat Riley's Knicks went against the trend and focused on defense, playing an extremely terrifying defensive efficiency of 99 for that era.
It was also the Knicks who, through a lot of interceptions and oppressive defense in the playoffs that season, allowed Jordan to play the most stinky series at his peak. Although they eventually lost, their tough defense alerted other teams who lacked talent.
"Defense is the key to shaking the king."
The Knicks' iron-blooded defense system spreads rapidly in the league.
Since Riley's iron-blooded defensive system is not similar to the Jazz in the 1980s, which is based on a single player (Mark Eaton), it is a complete set of defensive systems that include core defensive concepts and execution details, with strong replicability.
This defensive system does not require high offensive skills for executing players. It is a set of evil and evil techniques that can quickly improve the defensive skills of medium players and thus greatly improve the team's defensive efficiency based on the original personnel.
Therefore, once this evil magic spreads, other teams lack offensive players, resulting in the second-tier teams with an offensive level in the middle of the game. They quickly reference and apply it to actual combat, which has led to a significant improvement in the defense level of many teams.
It’s like, the mathematics school originally unified the world, but a second-class high school (Knicks) suddenly introduced a top mathematics teacher in the country back then. However, the teacher did not continue to teach mathematics. Instead, he volunteered to teach Chinese and actually explored and innovated a new set of Chinese learning strategies. His students learned Chinese based on this Chinese learning strategy and all achieved twice the result with half the effort. Originally, no matter how hard he worked, he could only get more than 70 points. Now he could get more than 80 points by spending a small amount of time. If he worked hard, he could even get 90 points.
"What are you kidding...I haven't played games with them, so I need you to say?"
Houston naturally knew how powerful the Knicks were, but he didn't want Mo Mengchen to remind him that he was the one who really played against the Knicks. Do you need this rookie reminder? Isn't that funny?
"If you can stay awake like Grant, I won't have to remind you." Mo Mengchen whispered.
"But you said too, Grant's three-point is not threatening at all." Houston muttered carelessly.
Devil Mountain, who was resting on the bus, shuddered and glared at him in grief. Is it better to be inferior to others if he is not good at three-pointers?
Chapter completed!